congressman bob goodlatte, thank you so much for joining us this morning. appreciate it, sir. >> thank you, john. >> let's turn now to our national security analyst, fran townsend, former homeland security adviser to president george w. bush. thanks so much for being with us this morning, fran. let me start with this news that was just confirmed by chairman goodlatte about the repeated contact, not just one, but the russian government reaching out to the fbi more than once about tamerlan tsarnaev in 2011. that sounds unusual. >> it's unusual, john, but i think we need to put it in context. look, the russian government's not the only government sending these sorts of leads to the fbi. and the fbi triages them. it takes all those referrals seriously. but you look at a group, it's a chechen related referral. chechnya was not -- those rebels were not known to target the united states. they target the russian government, and russian authorities, and not the u.s. wouldn't be perceived, at least, as a direct threat here to anything inside the united states. and so